EU official: Euro banks shouldn't also go through Fed's stress test, WSJ saysJonathan Hill, the European Unionís new financial markets chief, told The Wall Street Journal that he does not see a need for the U.S. to give stress tests to European banks that have already received health checks in Europe. Hill says banks across Europe are "properly and sensibly capitalized." The WSJ reported last week that the U.S. units of two European banks, Deutsche Bank (DB) and Banco Santander (SAN), are set to fail the Federal Reserve's stress tests, though they passed ECB stress tests last year. Reference Link

MannKind volatility increases into Q4 and outlook MannKind February weekly call option implied volatility is at 103, March is at 63, April is at 60. May is at 55; compared to its 26-week average of 70 according to Track Data, suggests large near term price movement into the expected release into the expected release of Q4 result on February 24.

S&P reportedly says Greece contagion not a major risk, Reuters reportsThe risk of contagion spreading from Greece to other European countries is not that large, a German newspaper quoted S&P's chief sovereign ratings officer as saying, according to Reuters. The euro zone would be able to handle an exit of the bloc by Greece, the ratings officer was quoted as saying, Reuters reported. Publicly traded European banks include Banco Santander (SAN), Barclays (BCS), Credit Suisse (CS), Deutsche Bank (DB), HSBC (HSBC), ING Groep (ING), Lloyds Banking (LYG), RBS (RBS) and UBS (UBS). Reference Link